🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years” Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏

Errr... Would this not include someone who has Nigerian citizenship through her parents, and who has admitted to hacking Harriet Harman's website, a crime which at the time carried a maximum sentence of five years?

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether. He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors

Labour bearing down on immigration will fix this any day now.

What an obsequious, toadying, servile, brown-nosing, corrupt little cunt Gianni Infantino is. The FIFA 'peace prize' is the most cringe-worthy, pathetic thing I've ever seen in my life. Football deserves better than this travesty of a ceremony and ruling body.

it was not... already listed as a high-risk country?

ICYMI: 🚨EXCLUSIVE: When Witkoff, Kushner and Dmitriev met in Miama last month to craft a peace plan in Ukraine, they were also privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line to beat European competitors

In general I am just *baffled* as to what Kemi Badenoch, Rachel Reeves and Shabana Mahmood's theory of 'successful female and/or minority politicians throughout the democratic world' IS. In different ways, all of them seem to be going 'well, what if every politician who has made this work is wrong?'

YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!

It's disgraceful that Rachel Reeves didn't take any questions from GB News! The fact that they claim to not be a news channel every time Ofcom find they have breached impartiality rules shouldn't stop them from pretending they are a news channel whenever it suits them.

Instead of fixing the £90bn Brexit black hole - the government is hitting you with record high stealth taxes. Ed said it best: We want to grow the economy, not tax the economy.

"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves "But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"

🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share. Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

It's always the ones you most expect... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Brexit has cost each and every one of us £3,700 a year. But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes. My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!

Everything is going very smoothly with people pardoned by DJT on.ft.com/481Fdpb

US Senator Mitch McConnell: "Putin has spent the entire year trying to play President Trump for a fool. If Administration officials are more concerned with appeasing Putin than securing real peace, then the President ought to find new advisors. ...

Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.

Farage just gave a press conference, and claimed that the red tape on businesses has risen since Brexit. You know what? He's right. But he's wrong about the reason! It's not because Brexit was done badly. It's because Brexit guarantees more bureaucracy because we have to duplicate EU institutions.

Private Eye nailing it.

🚨🚨Very interesting @bestforbritain.org report based on @yougov.co.uk polling suggests there is some alignment over party lines on #brexit being a failure.

My Trade Secrets today. Imagine the AWS data outage, but weaponised by Donald Trump to hold countries hostage. Like internet satellites, the cloud is a global economic chokepoint whose impact other governments need to protect against. China’s doing a pretty good job. The EU not so much.

It's genuinely crackers that in the UK, a social media company can *take advertising money from a fraudster*, the bank has to repay the victim out of its pocket, and the social media company doesn't even have to give the advertising cash to the bank! They make money on the transaction!

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

"Whatever lies behind Trump’s cupidity towards Putin, we should be long past caring why. The reality is settled fact. Putin has fewer cards in his hand than Trump supposes. One of those cards is Trump." My column. www.ft.com/content/7deb...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

I applaud Michael Gove's fervent commitment to gov't transparency on intelligence matters, however newly-discovered it is. ~AA

Almost like someone had advance notice from inside Trump’s inner circle. Truly the golden age of corruption.

My Trade Secrets newsletter today. Declare trade war on Friday, in full retreat by Sunday. Donald Trump's brought a knife (tariffs) to a gunfight (rare earths) with China. He's in a weak position and he's playing it badly. ALSO: global steel trade and Argentina are in a mess. Aren't they always?

Have you considered giving up avocado on toast?

New polling by YouGov, commissioned by B4B, shows: 46% of potential Conservative voters consider Brexit a failure. Of those voters, 51% say that Brexit has damaged the economy, and 50% say it has damaged our ability to trade with the EU. Full research here: https://bit.ly/46LZq1G

🫣 Profits are for wimps. Revenues are for losers. Ideas sell, not fundamentals Over half the Nasdaq market is loss making. About 1-in-8 companies have no revenues There are a lot more in these camps than in the past

This detailed demolition of @gullyfoyleuk.bsky.social's "75 Brexit Benefits" by @alanbeattie.bsky.social deserves wider circulation. Intellectual garbage disposal is a valuable public service!

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Brilliant from @bylinetimes.bsky.social but you have to wonder why #BBCNews are not covering this huge public interest story. Why are #SkyNews @itvnews.bsky.social also quiet on it. Why is Labour not instigating a full Russia influence inquiry?

If this was 15 years ago you would have assumed it was a mockumentary.

Top notch post from Brad Setser & Stephen Paduano on Milei and the Trump bailout. "... there are no atheists in foxholes. And there aren’t many libertarians in a financial crisis." on.ft.com/3Iq4QpH

⬇️ The once-dominant London market has raised only $210 million in listings this year, compared with $7.3 billion in Europe, according to data from Dealogic. https://www.law360.com/articles/2387351/brexit-factors-blamed-for-uk-s-sluggish-ipo-flows-?copied=1

A lot of pundits seem to simultaneously believe that Liverpool are the favourites to win the league and Arteta must win it or he is a failure, which would only make sense if Arsenal were the favourites.

Did everyone else miss the news that Trump's director of personnel failed a background check, was using a false name, was born in the Soviet Union despite claiming to be from Malta, and has now been made Ambassador to India? nypost.com/2025/06/17/u...

The key summary paragraph In essence: protests will make such injunctions *less* likely on the balancing exercise of the court. Thereby: the bigger the protest the less likely an injunction removing asylum seekers will be granted. Bold and refreshing decision.

Crucially, the weather has now turned. Rain has an amazing ability to quench those legitimate concerns. Also the footie is back on

So today we had confirmation that the US is now actively trying to take territory from Denmark, a democratic ally in one case, and in another case give land from democratic Ukraine to dictatorial Russia.

On July 14, 2025, Trump declared that he would levy 100% tariffs and secondary sanctions on countries that continued to buy Russian oil if Putin failed to agree to a ceasefire within 10-12 days. Putin didn't. Trump hasn't.

❌ For UK food and drink exporters "red tape is still the number one issue, followed by logistics and supply chain hurdles" when it comes to trade with the EU. 😵 What was all that about cutting red tape Brexiteers?

I'm sad to say that since leaving Twitter/X my sales for live shows have dropped quite a lot - it turns out that even though it's a dreadful place it was still useful for getting the word out about events. So any shares / RTs of my posts about live shows are hugely appreciated!

Angela Rayner decided that NE Security Ltd, a private security company run by a known cocaine drug trafficker who is currently in prison, doesn't need to be audited. The company is part of corporate corruption scandal at Teesside Freeport/SEZ.